Retirement Quotes - Page 21

• I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.

  Owen Hart

  Running, Ideas, Might

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• I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected.

  Pedro Martinez

  People, Plus, Plans

  "Pedro Martinez says he’s on way to retirement". www.washingtontimes.com. May 1, 2011.

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• Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.

  Peter Forsberg

  Quitting, Sour, Term

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• For all their scare tactics, President Obama and Democrats have no plan whatsoever to preserve Medicare for future generations - or protect it for today's seniors and those nearing retirement. They did, however, cut Medicare by $700 billion to bankroll Obamacare.

  Reince Priebus

  Senior, Cutting, Scare Tactics

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• I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing.

  Robbie Fowler

  Player, Games, People

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• I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

  Robert MacNeil

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

  Steve Israel

  Believe, Mean, Guarantees

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• I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Retired, Stills, Announcing

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• People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.

  George Burns

  Birthday, People, Appreciate

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• There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

  Oscar Levant

  Pride, Two Sides, Two

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• And I am in retirement from love.

  William H. Gass

  William H. Gass (2014). “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: And Other Stories”, p.128, New York Review of Books

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• You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

  Tennessee Williams

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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• Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on 'Hot in Cleveland?' Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?

  Betty White

  Blessed, Thinking, People

  "Actress-author Betty White". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2011.

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• Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

  Betty White

  Teacher, Vocabulary, Way

  "Q&A with Betty White: At 88, this dame's still game". Interview with Susan Wloszcznya, usatoday30.usatoday.com.

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• The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

  H. G. Wells

  Teacher, Jesus, Teaching

  H.G. Wells (2015). “A Short History of the World”, p.154, Xist Publishing

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• Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Wise, Teacher

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• When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.

  Virginia Graham

  Teacher, Teaching, Differences

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• You know what is a nice thought? Retirement.

  Keanu Reeves

  Depressing, Nice, Knows

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• The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.

  Shannon Fife

  Children, Humorous, Parenting

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• Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

  Harry Vardon

  Funny, Golf, Play

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• A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

  Arnold Bennett

  Birthday, Years, Fortune Cookie

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• Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

  H. H. Asquith

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Clever

  In Observer 15 Apr. 1923

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• Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Time, Spring

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Complete in One Volume”, p.49

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• Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill.

  David Blanchflower

  Time, Should, Ill

  "The Secret to a Happier Retirement: Friends, Neighbors and a Fixed Annuity". online.wsj.com. July 27, 2005.

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• We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.

  David Platt

  Taken, Eye, Successful

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